[TowerTalk] Securing Coax to Tower?

[Daron J. Wilson]

> Paul:
> 
>      I used lengths of #14 insulated solid house wiring to secure the coax
> to my Trylon T-500-64.  It is (or was) cheap enough and re-enterable if
> needed.

I've seen this marketed before, however, I spent two weekends cleaning a
commercial tower of those 'radiators' and the noise went way down on the
site.  Those short pieces of solid wire, not grounded, will be resonant at
some frequency.

> >I have a Trylon T500-72 tower which will have six runs of LMR-600 coax
> > running up one of its legs. For the past two years I had only two runs
> > of LMR-600 up the tower and these were secured to the tower with wraps
> > of Scotch 88 tape every four feet or so. This has worked fine for two
> > runs but seems like it may be stretching my luck to try this for six
> > runs. So the first question is how are others securing multiple coax
> > runs to tower legs that are not round?
> >
> > Times recommends using their very nice coax mounting blocks which I do
> > have a supply of. The problem with using these is that the coax is
> > supposed to be hung from the top, in my case, using their hoisting grips
> > (prime directive?). I can do this as I also have a supply of the grips.
> > If I use the hoisting grips to hang the coax how do I attach six Times
> > hoisting grips to the tower? The grips have a fairly robust saddle at
> > the top of the cable loop on the grip. Any and all recommendations or
> > suggestions most welcome.

I generally use galvanized screw shackles for that purpose.  The kind of U
shaped deal with a 3/8" bolt forming the link.   

Good luck,

N7HQR